Massie is quite possibly the last great conservative in congress (if not the whole of the federal government [Thomas and Alito excepted]).
Justice Scalia, the one who was disappeared, in favor of Anthony Kennedy? I’m surprised his name is still allowed here.
Yep, shut down government and make the executive branch and the senate come to the table.
Congress has the power to shut down expenditures being wielded by Biden. He has NOT the power to do it. The Treasury (run by Yellen) is party to this theft of public money.
Cut them off. Cut off the funding. Either make Johnson do it or hold onto him for now and replace the Congress members who continue to support him
It doesn’t matter who the Speaker is. Waiting for those who have never defended constitutionalism to defend constitutionalism is the definition of insanity. Creative alternatives are needed.
A one vote majority, minority in the Senate and opposed by the President does NOT give the Speaker the ability to control government!
"There was concern that Obama was doing things we hadn’t authorized and Boehner had convinced most of my GOP colleagues there wasn’t anything we could do about it."
[[Boehner had convinced them the executive was too powerful for us. ]]
Can’t beleive that that surrender monkey was ever in the position he was!
Imagine if Robert Bork would have been on the Supreme Court and not pushed out by Joe Biden and Ted Kennedy
[[I’m relating this story now because we find ourselves in the same situation today. ]]
And the swamp remains as deep and destructive to our nation as ever!
we can’t change things because too many people would be hurt. no one wants to end the party just because bills are due.
america=one big ass ponzi scheme
It's easier to let the executive branch run the country than for Congress to do the work.
To be fair, most voters seem to prefer this because they are lazy bums, too.
In a nutshell, this describes the entire problem with Congress, and the GOP. There are several reasons why this condition exists; fear of bad press, deals that help their own districts or donors, and no understanding of the consequences of debt. Ultimately, our elected officials have been horrible custodians of our tax dollars, and we do not hold them accountable. In that regard, there is enough blame to go around.
The difficulty is that before Congress can defund the Deep State, the Deep State’s ability to bribe, threaten, etc Congress members needs to be destroyed.
We’re not there yet. And we only ever WILL be there if we can keep the R majority in the House and win the Presidency. We need honest players in the House committee chairs, to make criminal referrals to the DOJ, and we need an honest AG to clean out the corrupt DOJ and then seriously execute justice based on the referrals he/she receives.
It’s a very specific plan that has to happen.
Until it has already happened, getting rid of any particular speaker is not going to change anything and will possibly screw up the whole plan that CAN change things, if it means we lose the House majority.
IOW, no chance of success, large chance of screwing up the only chance we have.
Not worth it.
This is true. My former rep Rob Woodall personally related this story to myself and Mr. GG2 during a conversation at one of his townhalls. He was at that breakfast.
That's the story of John Boehner's tenure as Speaker.